Departmental Data Protection

Eric Ollerenshaw: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many contracts his Department holds which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; to which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each such contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas under each such contract.

Owen Paterson: None.

BBC Trust

Ivan Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Southend West of 3 May 2011, Official Report, columns 630-31W, on BBC, what the new arrangements are on which his Department is working with the BBC Trust.

Jeremy Hunt: The new arrangements being negotiated are those which will enable the National Audit Office to have full access to the BBC’s accounts; and which will give the National Audit Office the discretion to decide in which areas of BBC expenditure it can undertake value-for-money investigations. This was announced by my Department on 22 September 2010 at:
	http://www.culture.gov.uk/news/media_releases/7438.aspx

Broadcasting

Ivan Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 21 March 2011, Official Report, column 764, on broadcasting, whether he proposes to hold a public consultation in advance of publication of his Communications green paper.

Jeremy Hunt: The Green Paper will be the primary mechanism for public consultation prior to drafting a White Paper and a draft Bill. There will be a period of engagement with interested parties leading to the publication of the Green Paper. We will outline our approach to the review via an open letter which will be published shortly.

Allotments

Jeremy Lefroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether she has any plans to make it easier for community groups to establish allotments.

James Paice: The Government strongly support the need for more growing spaces to be made available for people to grow their own fruit and vegetables, as a contribution to helping people understand more about where food comes from and to eat a healthy, sustainable diet. Allotment authorities have a duty to provide plots for growing food to persons resident in the area and there are no plans to change this. In addition, my officials are in regular discussion with the Department for Communities and Local Government to develop initiatives to release land which could be used by community groups and individuals wanting to grow their own food.
	The Government are funding the development of a 'meanwhile lease' by DCLG, which would help provide access to land on a temporary basis for community groups and individuals wanting to grow food. DEFRA and DCLG have also jointly funded feasibility work into 'community landbanks'—effectively a land brokerage advisory service that would facilitate agreements between landholders and community groups on releasing land for community growing.

Palm Oil: Labelling

Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make it her policy to support the mandatory labelling of palm oil on food packaging in negotiations on the revision of European regulations on food labelling; and if she will make a statement.

James Paice: Current food labelling law permits manufacturers to choose to label oils, when used as ingredients, under the generic name ‘vegetable oil' (which could include any mixture of refined oil, other than olive oil) to allow for variability of supply in the type of the oils used and avoid label changes. If the palm oil was to be sold on its own it would need to be sold using the term 'palm oil' or any name that was sufficiently precise to indicate the true nature of the food and to distinguish it from any other food with which it could be confused, or a customary name.
	Amendment 387 to the proposed food information regulation which will replace the existing food labelling directive (from which our legislation derives) has been proposed by the European Parliament. This would make it mandatory for all the specific types of vegetable oil, including palm oil, to be separately labelled in food ingredients. It is one of a number of amendments asking for more information to be provided about oils which are used as an ingredient in pre-packed foods. Discussions on the regulation are ongoing and it is unclear whether this provision will be included in the final regulation.
	I consider that this requirement for mandatory labelling of all vegetable oils in foods is unlikely to be a cost-effective approach to improving the sustainability of palm oil production and consumption. It may be burdensome for businesses to identify all the individual oils given the high number of products affected, often containing only small quantities of oils, and it would not inform consumers about whether or not the palm or other oils were sustainably produced. There is nothing to prevent manufacturers providing further information on a voluntary basis.

Bangladesh: Special Educational Needs

Richard Fuller: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what support his Department has provided for the provision of education in Bangladesh to children with special education needs.

Alan Duncan: UK support to the Bangladesh second Primary Education Development Programme (PEDPII) helped benefit 78,000 children with special needs in government primary schools between 2004 and 2011. It also developed relevant policy and guidance. The largest non-government organisations in the world, BRAC, provided high quality primary school education to 28,000 children with special needs in 2010, mainly with UK Government support.

David Kelly

Patrick Mercer: To ask the Attorney-General how many representations he has received on the need for a coroner's inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly.

Dominic Grieve: There has been a large amount of correspondence received on this matter since the first request was made to the Attorney-General to apply to the court for an inquest to be ordered into the death of Dr David Kelly by the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) in 2008. Since then representations have been made by letter, e-mail and telephone. No complete record of the total number of representations made has been maintained. However, I can say that since July 2010 I have given 14 written replies in answer to letters from Members of Parliament. In addition, since January 2011, I have received 82 pieces of correspondence from 22 individuals making representations of some kind in respect of this matter

Israel: Terrorism

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on Israel's security concerns since 14 February 2011; and if he will make a statement.

Alistair Burt: We have regular dialogue with the Government of Israel at both ministerial and official level. The Prime Minister met with the Israeli Prime Minister on 4 May. I visited Israel and the Occupied Territories in January 2011 and met Foreign Minister Lieberman. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague) also visited in November 2011. Foreign Minister Lieberman met with the Foreign Secretary and myself when he visited London on 24 January 2011. Officials will attend the rescheduled Strategic Dialogue talks in the summer 2011 in Israel. A wide range of issues will be discussed at these various meetings, including security.

Middle East: Peace Negotiations

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 
	(1)  what steps he is taking to press (a) Hamas and (b) other Palestinian terrorist organisations to renounce violence; what discussions he has had with (i) the government of Israel, (ii) the Palestinian Authority and (iii) the Arab League on this issue; and if he will make a statement; [R]
	(2)  what recent steps he (a) has taken and (b) plans to take to press Hamas to accept the Quartet Principles; and if he will make a statement; [R]
	(3)  what steps he is taking with his international counterparts to press Hamas to accept the Quartet Principles and join the negotiations between the government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority; and if he will make a statement. [R]

Alistair Burt: As the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), has said publically, there is an urgent need for peace in the middle east. We hope that the announcement of reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas will advance that cause. To do so we expect to see a government that rejects violence and pursues a negotiated peace. President Abbas reaffirmed his commitment to those principles in Cairo. But the government has yet to be formed. When it is we will judge it by its actions and its commitment to non violence and working for peace.

Middle East: Politics and Government

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of comments by the leadership of Hamas on the attitude of the interim Palestinian government towards seeking peace with Israel; and if he will make a statement. [R]

Alistair Burt: The agreement was signed at a ceremony in Cairo on 4 May 2011, attended by President Abbas for the Palestinian Authority; Khaled Mishaal for Hamas and the Egyptian Foreign Minister, el Araby. A representative from our embassy in Cairo attended as an observer, along with key EU partners.
	The Prime Minister met with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on 4 May 2011 and discussed the announcement on Palestinian unity. We renew our calls on both sides to commit to peace talks, leading to a Palestinian state that exists in peace and security alongside Israel. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), has been clear that Britain hopes that the announcement of reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas will lead to the formation of a government that rejects violence and pursues a negotiated peace, and we will judge a future Palestinian government by its actions and its readiness to work for peace.
	We will continue to monitor and discuss with the Palestinian Authority, Arab League and US via our embassies.

Asylum

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many non-asylum cases were granted settlement outside the immigration rules in each year since 1997.

Damian Green: The available information is given in the following table. It shows the number of people granted indefinite leave (settlement) outside the immigration rules, 2004 to 2010, either:
	in non-asylum and non-protection cases where someone qualifies under one of the immigration policy concessions (indefinite leave outside the rules-concession); or
	for other reasons (indefinite leave outside the rules-no concession).
	The data provided for “other reasons” includes asylum as well as non-asylum cases from 2007 as from that year it includes persons granted indefinite leave outside the immigration rules under measures aimed at clearing the backlog of unresolved cases.
	It is not possible to determine how many grants of “indefinite leave outside the immigration rules for other reasons” relate to non-asylum cases or to provide corresponding information prior to 2004 without detailed examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.
	
		
			 Grants of settlement  (1, 2, 3 )  by selected outcome, excluding EEA and Swiss nationals  (4)  , 2005  -  10  (5) 
			 Number of persons 
			 Recorded outcome 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009  (6) 2010  (6) 
			 Indefinite leave outside the rules—concession 10 5 10 70 610 1,330 1,155 
			 Indefinite leave outside the rules—no concession(7) 5 25 20 13,655 23,395 30,690 74,380 
			 (1) Includes reconsideration cases and the outcome of appeals.  (2) May include a small number of cases in which a decision is recorded twice, where an individual has dual nationality.  (3) Includes dependants.  (4) Nationals of EU accession countries are included or excluded according to their accession date.  (5) Figures rounded to the nearest 5 ( - = 0, * = 1 or 2).  (6 )Provisional figures.  (7) Data from 2007 onwards include asylum as well as non-asylum cases as from that year it includes persons granted indefinite leave outside the immigration rules under measures aimed at clearing the backlog of outstanding unresolved cases.

Driving Offences

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drivers were fined for speeding in England and Wales in each year since 2008 in each police force area.

James Brokenshire: There were 1.1 million fixed penalty notices issued by the 43 police forces of England and Wales for speeding in 2009 and 1.2 million issued in 2008.
	A breakdown by police force area for 2009 can be found on page 67, table 3.01, column 16 of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin “Police Powers and Procedures 2009/10”. The publication is available in the Library of the House and at the following weblink:
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/police-research/hosb0711/
	A breakdown by police force area for 2008 can be found on page 54, table 3.01, column 16 of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin “Police Powers and Procedures 2008/09”. The publication is available in the Library of the House and at the following weblink:
	http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218135832/rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/hosb0610.pdf
	Data for 2010 is due to be published in April 2012.

Overseas Students: Visas

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions she has held with interested parties on tier 4 student visas.

Damian Green: The Secretary of State has had a number of discussions with various interested parties relating to Tier 4, including the Russell Group, and a number of vice-chancellors of prominent universities. I have also had recent discussions about Tier 4 with the Russell Group and vice-chancellors, as well as other interested parties including the Association of Colleges, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and various Members of Parliament.

Police

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects to make a decision on implementation of the recommendations of the (a) Hutton and (b) Winsor reports in respect of police services; and if she will make a statement.

Nick Herbert: The Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), has referred those recommendations of Tom Winsor's first report that call for changes in the short-term to remuneration and conditions of service in England and Wales to the appropriate bodies to consider. She has directed the negotiating machinery for police officers to complete their consideration by 26 July 2011 and will consider their recommendations carefully, in line with her statutory obligations.
	As the Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr Osborne), announced in his Budget statement of 23 March 2011, the Government accept Lord Hutton's recommendations as a basis for consultation. The Government will set out proposals in the autumn that are affordable, sustainable, and fair to both the public sector work force and the taxpayer. The Government recognise that the position of the uniformed services, including the police, will require particularly careful consideration. Any changes to police pensions would be subject to the usual consultation processes with the Police Negotiating Board.

Police: Manpower

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications to join the force each police force received in each year since 1997; and how many officers were recruited in each such year.

Nick Herbert: The requested data on applications have been collected since 2002-03 and where available are given in table 1. The data provided here are management information and as such it is important to note that they are provisional and have not been subjected to the usual quality assurance practices.
	The requested data on recruits have been collected since 2002-03 and are given in table 2.
	
		
			 Table 1: Number  (1)   of formal application forms  (2)   received by police forces from 2002-03 to 2009-10 
			  2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 
			 Avon and Somerset 916 446 (3)— 2,121 2,062 (3)— (3)— 2054 
			 Bedfordshire 1,940 (3)— 635 42 (3)— 456 285 299 
			 Cambridgeshire 1,511 (3)— (3)— 783 (3)— 21 (3)— 255 
			 Cheshire 4,532 (3)— 779 (3)— 1,666 165 580 425 
			 Cleveland 1,464 (3)— 113 (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— 
			 Cumbria 1,085 767 105 226 243 431 491 (3)— 
			 Derbyshire 2,884 753 113 4 (3)— 1,310 (3)— (3)— 
			 Devon and Cornwall 3,614 1,203 1,366 1,397 (3)— 463 826 (3)— 
			 Dorset 1,224 (3)— (3)— (3)— 358 (3)— (3)— (3)— 
		
	
	
		
			 Durham 1,343 (3)— (3)— 2,019 (3)— (3)— 403 (3)— 
			 Dyfed-Powys 859 366 (3)— 897 (3)— (3)— 781 (3)— 
			 Essex 2,282 2,127 571 925 (3)— 1,262 1,437 (3)— 
			 Gloucestershire 1,062 245 795 963 (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— 
			 Greater Manchester (3)— 3,642 200 (3)— (3)— 4,972 2,602 1,934 
			 Gwent 1,493 1,005 (3)— 918 931 1,031 (3)— 1,761 
			 Hampshire 5,820 1,349 (3)— 1,949 1,766 1,968 (3)— (3)— 
			 Hertfordshire 1,992 1,224 333 1,103 679 659 1098 (3)— 
			 Humberside 1,349 1,519 (3)— 996 (3)— 441 (3)— (3)— 
			 Kent 3,027 (3)— 1,401 1,347 (3)— 2,521 1,272 (3)— 
			 Lancashire (3)— 1,961 984 2,742 (3)— 4,370 1,832 (3)— 
			 Leicestershire 1,421 1,249 (3)— 295 (3)— 435 640 38 
			 Lincolnshire 1,289 (3)— 284 333 (3)— 1,020 469 976 
			 London, City of 594 449 (3)— 415 (3)— 850 (3)— (3)— 
			 Merseyside 3,190 1,331 3,137 (3)— 1,729 550 2,232 3,375 
			 Metropolitan Police (3)— 4,065 1,160 3,444 1,460 5,498 11,566 2,591 
			 Norfolk 1,206 (3)— 674 854 (3)— (3)— 785 415 
			 Northamptonshire 283 384 451 522 273 749 589 397 
			 Northumbria 3,349 1,074 1,941 1,301 (3)— 2,590 2,615 223 
			 North Wales 2,219 1,234 1,482 705 (3)— 346 568 363 
			 North Yorkshire (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— 
			 Nottinghamshire 2,770 1,104 1,176 (3)— 445 279 566 331 
			 South Wales 724 2,204 (3)— 1,814 1,102 (3)— 2,895 (3)— 
			 South Yorkshire 1,300 1,235 807 366 721 893 (3)— 733 
			 Staffordshire 2,043 (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— 351 (3)— 
			 Suffolk 1,352 890 442 1,115 (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— 
			 Surrey 2,345 (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— 32 785 
			 Sussex 1,051 (3)— 1,190 520 (3)— 936 (3)— 318 
			 Thames Valley 3,907 2,077 (3)— (3)— (3)— 0 1,938 (3)— 
			 Warwickshire 651 229 572 468 (3)— (3)— 482 (3)— 
			 West Mercia 3,440 1,959 278 78 (3)— 1,005 924 14 
			 West Midlands (3)— (3)— (3)— 3,431 (3)— 3,451 739 299 
			 West Yorkshire 4,087 2,704 2,939 769 1,434 2,149 1,810 (3)— 
			 Wiltshire 1,183 432 499 (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— (3)— 
			 (1) Provisional management information data collected for planning purposes only. Data has not undergone usual quality assurance practices (including validation with individual police forces) and are therefore supplied for information purposes only. (2) Does not include informal expressions of interest. Some forces did not send out and receive paper application packs when they could instead receive electronic applications via the www.policecouldyou.co.uk website. Where forces have received application packs from other means it is not always possible to separately identify the number of paper application packs received, and in such cases forces have been instructed to return a zero response. (3 )Data not available (or may be zero). Force was not able to supply data at the time of collection. 
		
	
	
		
			 Table 2: Police officer recruits  (1)   (FTE)  (2)   to police forces from 2002-03 to 2009-10 
			  2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 
			 Avon and Somerset 40 198 93 123 90 153 67 74 
			 Bedfordshire 89 178 106 54 45 79 87 65 
			 Cambridgeshire 76 107 99 104 34 66 144 100 
			 Cheshire 141 153 105 121 107 42 91 76 
			 Cleveland 129 138 83 114 79 43 126 52 
			 Cumbria 63 113 51 55 58 41 74 26 
			 Derbyshire 146 146 64 66 84 129 122 48 
			 Devon and Cornwall 138 131 200 255 98 115 145 80 
			 Dorset 72 86 76 102 64 37 35 43 
			 Durham 21 104 79 71 42 21 37 1 
			 Dyfed-Powys 7 53 35 54 47 48 47 48 
			 Essex 40 225 276 224 306 238 200 248 
			 Gloucestershire 53 98 60 70 81 76 81 0 
			 Greater Manchester 113 978 233 277 362 426 482 214 
			 Gwent 45 78 102 80 69 61 21 42 
			 Hampshire 267 282 204 244 249 204 81 182 
			 Hertfordshire 202 279 155 173 185 105 149 85 
			 Humberside 56 188 126 93 95 95 0 12 
			 Kent 192 290 193 209 233 149 222 145 
		
	
	
		
			 Lancashire 240 311 148 196 165 182 215 56 
			 Leicestershire 116 245 123 96 85 98 161 31 
			 Lincolnshire 64 44 59 54 66 36 79 15 
			 London, City of 44 52 39 41 30 20 38 49 
			 Merseyside 101 192 389 161 312 200 259 241 
			 Metropolitan Police 2,434 2,971 1,886 1,050 1,249 966 2,010 1,633 
			 Norfolk 71 56 77 55 49 48 180 67 
			 Northamptonshire 45 99 109 115 68 82 90 54 
			 Northumbria 151 197 159 122 87 163 281 149 
			 North Wales 77 66 71 51 44 45 90 49 
			 North Yorkshire 99 82 71 110 85 0 0 96 
			 Nottinghamshire 89 138 138 54 46 47 144 59 
			 South Wales 180 173 118 122 118 54 73 120 
			 South Yorkshire 103 261 205 148 164 92 57 29 
			 Staffordshire 27 123 108 81 95 40 48 42 
			 Suffolk 81 113 37 45 77 15 47 40 
			 Surrey 92 116 130 124 157 121 93 126 
			 Sussex 139 320 229 236 167 221 315 160 
			 Thames Valley 306 479 361 374 219 244 346 297 
			 Warwickshire 57 51 59 69 66 0 16 23 
			 West Mercia 235 88 90 88 110 79 80 53 
			 West Midlands 478 408 476 442 445 497 610 335 
			 West Yorkshire 277 337 566 176 271 352 244 139 
			 Wiltshire 62 120 70 50 28 47 55 18 
			 (1) Recruits included those officers joining as Police Standard Direct Recruits and those who were previously Special Constables. This excludes police officers on transfers from other forces and those rejoining. (2 )Full Time Equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.

Stop and Search: Terrorism

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people had their vehicles stopped and searched under section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 in each year since 2006; and how many of those were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of (i) a notifiable offence and (ii) a terrorism-related offence in (A) each police force area and (B) England and Wales.

Nick Herbert: The number of vehicles stopped under section 1 of the said power is published within the Home Office Statistical Bulletin "Police Powers and Procedures". Data relating to prosecutions and convictions are published by the Ministry of Justice in its "Criminal Statistics" publication. It is not possible to identify which prosecutions and convictions were as a result of stop and searches. Current and previous copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House.

Stop and Search: Terrorism

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people had their vehicle stopped and searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in each year since 2005; and how many of those were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of (i) a notifiable offence and (ii) a terrorism-related offence in (A) each police force area and (B) England and Wales.

Nick Herbert: The information requested is published in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin ‘Operation of Police Powers under Terrorism Act 2000 and Subsequent Legislation’. Current and previous copies of both annual and quarterly updates are available in the Library of the House.

Visas: Finance

David Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations she has received on the cost of visas.

Damian Green: During the last three months the UK Border Agency has received eight representations regarding the costs of visas . These consisted of four MP letters on behalf of their constituents, two Treat Official letters and two parliamentary questions.

Civil Proceedings: Legal Costs

Ian Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what representations (a) he and (b) his Department have received from defendant insurance companies since the publication of Lord Justice Jackson's review of civil litigation costs.

Jonathan Djanogly: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Robert Flello) on 14 March 2011, Official Report, column 139W.
	I met with the Association of British Insurers (ABI) on 29 July. During the consultation period for Proposals for Reform of Civil Litigation Funding and Costs in England and Wales—Implementation of Lord Justice Jackson's Recommendations, I hosted three roundtable discussions with interested parties. The first, on 2 December 2010 aimed to include parties on all sides of the debate; claimant and defendant solicitors, insurers, after the event (ATE) insurers and other interested parties. I then held meetings with a group of claimant practitioners on 18 January 2011, and defendant practitioners, including insurers and the ABI on 19 January 2011.
	The Secretary of State and I have regular meetings with representative bodies, covering a range of issues. The Secretary of State has not held any meetings with insurers or claimant solicitors specifically to discuss the proposed changes to civil litigation funding and costs.
	The Department has received various submissions from defendant insurance companies in relation to the consultation 'Reform of Civil Litigation Funding and Costs in England and Wales—Implementation of Lord Justice Jackson's Recommendations'.

Prison Sentences

Karl Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  how many serving prisoners have been in prison for longer than their tariff length; and in which prisons those prisoners are located;
	(2)  for what length of time in addition to the length of their tariff each prisoner serving a sentence in excess of their tariff length has been in custody.

Crispin Blunt: The tariff is the minimum term that a life or other indeterminate sentence prisoner must serve in custody before becoming eligible for consideration for release by the Parole Board.
	As at 17 November 2010, there were 6,316 offenders in custody being held beyond their tariff expiry date. Table 1 shows a breakdown of this total by prison establishment. For a small number of offenders, the current prison establishment was not recorded on the data held centrally. Additionally, some offenders are held in secure hospitals and other secure accommodation.
	Table 2 shows a distribution of the time served beyond tariff expiry date as at 17 November 2010. These figures include all offenders being held in prison and for whom the prison establishment was recorded centrally; they exclude those held in other secure custody or where prison establishment was not recorded on the data held centrally.
	These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
	
		
			 Table 1:   Lifers and IPPs in custody beyond their tariff expiry date as at17 November 2010, by establishment 
			 Establishment Number 
			 Acklington 103 
			 Albany 131 
			 Altcourse 20 
			 Ashfield 3 
			 Ashwell 25 
			 Askham Grange 15 
			 Aylesbury 15 
			 Bedford 1 
			 Belmarsh 5 
			 Birmingham 15 
			 Blantyre House 35 
			 Blundeston 65 
			 Brinsford 2 
			 Bristol 7 
			 Brixton 3 
			 Bronzefield 5 
			 Buckley Hall 42 
			 Bullingdon 64 
			 Bure 88 
			 Camp Hill 40 
			 Cardiff 31 
			 Castington 5 
			 Channings Wood 104 
			 Chelmsford 7 
			 Coldingley 65 
			 Dartmoor 68 
			 Deerbolt 2 
			 Doncaster 7 
			 Dorchester 2 
			 Dovegate 101 
			 Downview 6 
			 Drake Hall 3 
			 Durham 7 
			 East Sutton Park 5 
		
	
	
		
			 Eastwood Park 2 
			 Erlestoke 77 
			 Everthorpe 32 
			 Exeter 1 
			 Featherstone 55 
			 Ford 47 
			 Forest Bank 6 
			 Foston Hall 9 
			 Frankland 172 
			 Full Sutton 113 
			 Garth 123 
			 Gartree 105 
			 Gloucester 8 
			 Grendon/Spring Hill 121 
			 Guys Marsh 54 
			 Haverigg 27 
			 Hewell 46 
			 High Down 11 
			 Highpoint 67 
			 Hollesley Bay 52 
			 Holloway 10 
			 Holme House 24 
			 Hull 34 
			 Huntercombe 4 
			 Kennet 2 
			 Kingston (Portsmouth) 55 
			 Kirkham 110 
			 Kirklevington Grange 43 
			 Lancaster 15 
			 Lancaster Farms 10 
			 Latchmere House 12 
			 Leeds 7 
			 Lewes 13 
			 Leyhill 107 
			 Lincoln 21 
			 Lindholme 80 
			 Littlehey 98 
			 Liverpool 19 
			 Long Lartin 76 
			 Low Newton 17 
			 Lowdham Grange 48 
			 Maidstone 64 
			 Manchester 41 
			 Moorland Closed 32 
			 Moorland Open 31 
			 Mount (The) 70 
			 New Hall 11 
			 North Sea Camp 107 
			 Norwich 23 
			 Nottingham 15 
			 Onley 24 
			 Parc 18 
			 Parkhurst 62 
			 Pentonville 10 
			 Peterborough Female 6 
			 Peterborough Male 9 
			 Portland 2 
			 Preston 12 
			 Ranby 84 
			 Reading 2 
		
	
	
		
			 Risley 195 
			 Rochester 2 
			 Rye Hill 61 
			 Send 27 
			 Sheppey Cluster (Elmley) 47 
			 Sheppey Cluster (Standford Hill) 27 
			 Sheppey Cluster (Swaleside) 155 
			 Shepton Mallet 114 
			 Shrewsbury 4 
			 Stafford 44 
			 Stocken 126 
			 Stoke Heath 3 
			 Styal 11 
			 Sudbury 117 
			 Swaleside 1 
			 Swansea 2 
			 Swinfen Hall 104 
			 Thorn Cross 1 
			 Usk/Prescoed 91 
			 Verne (The) 44 
			 Wakefield 191 
			 Wandsworth 32 
			 Warren Hill 1 
			 Wayland 88 
			 Wealstun 20 
			 Wellingborough 78 
			 Wetherby 2 
			 Whatton 244 
			 Whitemoor 64 
			 Winchester 4 
			 Wolds 73 
			 Woodhill 13 
			 Wormwood Scrubs 8 
			 Wymott 98 
			 Establishment not centrally recorded/other secure custody 571 
			 Total 6,316 
		
	
	
		
			 Table 2:   Lifers and IPPs in prison beyond their tariff expiry date as at 17 November 2010, by length of time served past tariff 
			  Number 
			 Less than 6 months 695 
			 6 months to less than 1 years 643 
			 1 year to less than 2 years 1,288 
			 2 years to less than 3 years 975 
			 3 years to less than 5 years 850 
			 5 years to less than 10 years 774 
			 10 years+ 520 
			 Total 5,745

Prisons

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff working in prisons have been (a) investigated on suspicion of, (b) disciplined for and (c) dismissed for providing unauthorised items to prisoners in each of the last five years.

Crispin Blunt: Central information covering formal staff disciplinary proceedings is recorded according to the type of misconduct. There is no specific category for 'providing unauthorised items to prisoners' and therefore the information requested at (a) and (b) is not held centrally. It could be obtained by manually examining individual records only at a disproportionate cost.
	Records, held since January 2008, show that 32 directly employed and 66 non-directly employed staff working in prisons have been dismissed for offences relating to the conveying unauthorised items in to prisons up to 31 March 2011. Available data does not cover whether such items are actually provided to prisoners. The following table provides a yearly breakdown;
	
		
			 Calendar year Dismissals of prison staff linked to the conveying unauthorised items Exclusions of non directly employed prison staff linked to the conveying of unauthorised items 
			 2008-09 14 22 
			 2009-10 7 23 
			 2010-11 10 13 
			 2011-12 (1)1 (1)8 
			 (1 )To 11 May 
		
	
	These figures have been drawn from live administrative data systems held by the Corruption Prevention Unit, which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Non directly employed prison staff are employed to work in prisons through a third party such as a local education provider, healthcare trust or other voluntary organisations. These individuals are covered by the NOMS corruption prevention strategy.

Prisons: Drugs

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff working in prisons have undergone treatment for substance abuse in each of the last three years; and how many staff were undergoing treatment for substance abuse on the latest date for which figures are available.

Crispin Blunt: Data on the numbers of any staff working in prisons who may have undergone treatment for substance abuse in the last three years is not available to the National Offender Management Service, in any form.
	Substance abuse by staff is not compatible with working in prisons and where this is suspected or identified, appropriate action is taken. Any treatment provided to individual staff members would be through self-referral in the community (either via the employee's own GP or privately). Medical confidentiality applies to personal sensitive data relating to treatment of this sort and as such would remain confidential to the individual member of staff and their healthcare providers and would not be available to NOMS.

Prisons: Security

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  how many (a) shotgun cartridges, (b) mobile phones, (c) replica firearms, (d) blank rounds, (e) flick knives, (f) SIM cards, (g) mobile phone chargers, (h) cameras and (i) drugs were kept in each prison establishment for the purposes of testing or training in the last year for which figures are available;
	(2)  how many (a) shotgun cartridges, (b) mobile phones, (c) replica firearms, (d) blank rounds, (e) flick knives, (f) SIM cards, (g) mobile phone chargers, (h) cameras and (i) drugs used as training aids in prisons and designated to be stored in the security department or Governor's safe have been reported (i) missing, (ii) stolen or (iii) otherwise unaccountable at each prison establishment in each of the last five years.

Crispin Blunt: Data relating to the number of items held in prisons for training or testing purposes are not held centrally. In order to provide this information, it would be necessary to contact each prison individually, which could be done only at disproportionate cost.
	The loss or theft of official items, including bladed items, mobile phones, chargers and SIM cards is reported under the miscellaneous category on the Prison Service Incident Reporting System. The loss or theft of drugs used for training aids of drugs are recorded under a separate drugs category. Any incident relating to firearms and ammunition, including the loss or theft of items used for training would be held under a separate firearms category.
	These incidents are held in a format that cannot readily be interrogated electronically. To provide the information requested would involve the manual inspection of more than 79,000 incident records for the five financial manual inspection of more than 79,000 incident records for the five financial years involved which could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.

Departmental Responsibilities

Nick Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether his Department plans to cease to fund any of its functions over the period of the comprehensive spending review.

Bob Neill: In terms of my Department's plans to cease any of its functions, four of the Department's arm’s length bodies have already been closed and a programme of reform is in place which will see another 12 either closed or their functions transferred by 2012.
	For details on estimated savings costs attached to this I refer the hon. Member to the departmental press notice of 16 March 2011.which can be found at the following link:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/newsroom/1865652
	Most of the functions of the Government offices for the regions have been discontinued: a limited number of residual functions have been transferred to Departments, including this Department.

Care Homes

Penny Mordaunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what support and advice his Department gives to people who wish to plan for self-funded care in later life; and if he will make a statement.

Paul Burstow: Local authorities have a duty to provide a needs assessment for everyone who requests one—whether supported by a council or their own funds—and, as part of this process, to sign-post them to the information and advice they need.
	The Government recognise that more can be done to help self-funders plan and prepare for the care costs that they may face in later life. We have set up the Commission on Funding of Care and Support and, in its terms of reference, have asked that it provides recommendations on 'how people could choose to protect their assets, especially their homes, against the cost of care'.
	We have asked the commission to report in July 2011, and will respond to its recommendations in a White Paper by the end of the year.

Clostridium Difficile

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients contracted c. difficile while in hospital in Havering in the last five years.

Simon Burns: The information is not collected in the format requested.
	The figures presented are the ‘trust apportioned number’ referring to infections that are presumed to be to be acquired in that trust during that visit. Data apportioned to trust are only available from 2007 onwards for Clostridium difficile infection episodes.
	Cases are trust apportioned if the location of the patient when the specimen was taken was reported as an acute hospital ‘in-patient’, ‘day patient’ or ‘Emergency assessment patient’ and the specimen date was on, or after, the fourth day of the admission where day of admission is equal to day one.
	These data only show the number of reported C. difficile infections in patients aged two years and over, this does not reflect the number of different patients as one patient may have had more than one episode of infection reported. These data are reported by the acute trust.
	
		
			 Number of trust apportioned cases of infections caused by C. difficile in patients aged two years and over—Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust 
			 April to March each year Number 
			 2007-08 143 
			 2008-09 121 
			 2009-10- 81 
			 2010-11(1) 111 
			 (1) Figure is derived from monthly published data

Dental Services

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists' surgeries he has visited in an official capacity in the last 12 months.

Simon Burns: In the last 12 months my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health (Mr Lansley) has visited one community dental service in an official capacity. My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Earl Howe) leads on dentistry within the ministerial team and has visited two dental practices in the last 12 months, one in Worcester and one in London. He has also visited dentists providing oral health promotion services for children provided in a children's centre in Preston.

Preventable Diseases: South Asian Communities

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  what steps he is taking to tackle preventable diseases in South Asian communities;
	(2)  what steps he is taking to provide information on diabetes to South Asian communities.

Paul Burstow: In the public health White Paper, “Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our strategy for public health in England”, we announced radical reforms to how public health is managed in future. From April 2013, local authorities will be given responsibility, backed by a ring-fenced public health grant, and new freedoms, to make a major impact on improving people's health and tackling health inequalities in every community.
	We remain fully committed to the NHS Health Check programme, which is aimed at everyone in England between the ages of 40-74. It is a risk assessment and risk management programme, which assesses people's risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and diabetes and supports people to reduce or manage that risk through individually tailored advice. In rolling out this programme, some primary care trusts targeted high-risk groups first such as South Asian populations who are at particularly high risk of diabetes.
	The recently published National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence guidance, “Preventing type 2 diabetes: population and community-level interventions in high-risk groups and the general population”, makes recommendations for the provision of culturally appropriate messages about preventing Type 2 diabetes. The guidance underlines the action that we are already taking to improve public health and reduce the risk of people developing Type 2 diabetes. It is for the national health service at a local level to determine the needs of their local population and to allocate resources appropriately to meet these needs.
	To raise awareness of the importance of maintaining a healthy weight, the Government developed a national movement called “Change4life” to help parents make healthier food choices for their children and encourage more activity.

GP Surgeries

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many GP surgeries he has visited in an official capacity in the last 12 months.

Simon Burns: In the last 12 months my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health (Mr Lansley) visited eight general practitioner practices in an official capacity.

Health Centres: Greater London

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nurses and (b) allied health professionals work in GP clinics in each London borough.

Simon Burns: Information is not collected in the format requested.
	The following table provides a headcount of general practitioner (GP) practice nurses and direct patient care staff in each primary care trust (PCT) area as at 30 September 2010.
	
		
			 GP practice nurses and direct patient care staff headcount in selected region, as at 30 September 2010 
			    Headcount 
			   GP practice nurse Direct patient care 
			 Q36 London strategic health authority 2,930 1,244 
			     
			 5A4 Havering PCT 67 22 
			 5A5 Kingston PCT 109 10 
			 5A7 Bromley PCT 126 44 
			 5A8 Greenwich Teaching PCT 121 44 
			 5A9 Barnet PCT 124 53 
			 5AT Hillingdon PCT 104 37 
			 5C1 Enfield PCT 96 19 
			 5C2 Barking and Dagenham PCT 77 16 
			 5C3 City and Hackney Teaching PCT 72 70 
			 5C4 Tower Hamlets PCT 76 34 
			 5C5 Newham PCT 115 20 
			 5C9 Haringey Teaching PCT 89 0 
			 5H1 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 47 36 
			 5HX Ealing PCT 135 71 
		
	
	
		
			 5HY Hounslow PCT 90 59 
			 5K5 Brent Teaching PCT 103 54 
			 5K6 Harrow PCT 93 20 
			 5K7 Camden PCT 39 57 
			 5K8 Islington PCT 61 32 
			 5K9 Croydon PCT 154 51 
			 5LA Kensington and Chelsea PCT 54 16 
			 5LC Westminster PCT 71 58 
			 5LD Lambeth PCT 136 97 
			 5LE Southwark PCT 76 82 
			 5LF Lewisham PCT 182 16 
			 5LG Wandsworth PCT 108 57 
			 5M6 Richmond and Twickenham PCT 58 34 
			 5M7 Sutton and Merton PCT 128 74 
			 5NA Redbridge PCT 85 19 
			 5NC Waltham Forest PCT 99 28 
			 TAK Bexley Care Trust 35 14 
			 Notes: 1. Data is not available for London boroughs. PCT boundaries correspond exactly to London boroughs. 2. In the 2010 GP practice census, headcount figures on direct patient care were reported for the first time. Direct patient care contains all qualified staff excluding general practitioners and practice nurses. Similarly to the staff group ‘Allied Health Professionals’ on the non-medical census, staff in the direct patient care category contain those such as physiotherapists, speech therapists, chiropodists etc. 3. Figures are for staff working in GP practices in London SHA. 4. Data Quality: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data, but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed, but unless it is significant at national level, figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses. Source: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics.

Health Centres: Greater London

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many GPs practise in each London borough.

Simon Burns: Information is not collected in the format requested.
	The following table provides a headcount of general practitioners (GPs) in each primary care trust area as at 30 September 2010.
	
		
			 GPs (excluding retainers and registrars) in selected region as at 30 September 2010 
			 Headcount 
			 Q36 London Strategic Health Authority 5,340 
			    
			 5A4 Havering PCT 130 
			 5A5 Kingston PCT 119 
			 5A7 Bromley PCT 215 
			 5A8 Greenwich Teaching PCT 157 
			 5A9 Barnet PCT 226 
			 5AT Hillingdon PCT 149 
			 5C1 Enfield PCT 192 
			 5C2 Barking and Dagenham PCT 110 
			 5C3 City And Hackney Teaching PCT 200 
		
	
	
		
			 5C4 Tower Hamlets PCT 198 
			 5C5 Newham PCT 196 
			 5C9 Haringey Teaching PCT 179 
			 5H1 Hammersmith And Fulham PCT 128 
			 5HX Ealing PCT 213 
			 5HY Hounslow PCT 141 
			 5K5 Brent Teaching PCT 207 
			 5K6 Harrow PCT 152 
			 5K7 Camden PCT 182 
			 5K8 Islington PCT 152 
			 5K9 Croydon PCT 224 
			 5LA Kensington And Chelsea PCT 108 
			 5LC Westminster PCT 146 
			 5LD Lambeth PCT 266 
			 5LE Southwark PCT 197 
			 5LF Lewisham PCT 194 
			 5LG Wandsworth PCT 252 
			 5M6 Richmond And Twickenham PCT 121 
			 5M7 Sutton and Merton PCT 256 
			 5NA Redbridge PCT 136 
			 5NC Waltham Forest PCT 157 
			 TAK Bexley Care Trust 118 
			 Notes: 1. Data not available for London boroughs. PCT boundaries correspond exactly to London boroughs. 2. The new headcount methodology for 2010 data is not fully comparable with previous years' data due to improvements that make it a more stringent count of absolute staff numbers. Further information on the headcount methodology is available in the Census publication here: www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/010_Workforce/nhsstaff0010/Census_Bulletin_March_2011_Final.pdf 3. Headcount totals are unlikely to equal the sum of components. 4. Data Quality: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published, This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses. Source: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics

Hospitals: Infectious Diseases

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients contracted MRSA while in hospitals in Havering in the last five years.

Simon Burns: The information is not collected in the format requested.
	The figures presented are the “trust apportioned number” referring to infections that are presumed to be acquired in that trust during that visit. Data apportioned to trust is only available from 2008 onwards for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia episodes.
	Cases are trust apportioned if the location of the patient when the specimen was taken was reported as an acute hospital “in-patient”, “day patient” or “emergency assessment patient” and the specimen date was on, or after, the third day of the admission where day of admission is equal to day 1.
	These data only show the number of reported MRSA bloodstream infections, this does not reflect the number of different patients as one patient may have had more than one episode of infection reported.
	These data are only available by financial year.
	
		
			 Trust apportioned cases of bloodstream infections caused by MRSA—Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust  ,   April to March each year 
			  Number 
			 2008-09 20 
			 2009-10 19 
			 2010-11(1) 15 
			 (1) Figure is derived from monthly published data.

Hospitals: Visits

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospitals he has visited in an official capacity in the last year.

Simon Burns: In the last 12 months my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health (Mr Lansley) visited 33 hospitals in an official capacity.

Liverpool Primary Care Trust: Advertising

Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  how much has been spent on (a) advertising promotions and (b) promotions by Liverpool Primary Care Trust in each of the last five years;
	(2)  what the cost to the NHS was of advertising by Liverpool Primary Care Trust (a) in the Liverpool Echo and (b) on radio related to (i) NHS Healthcheck, (ii) cancer symptoms and (iii) dentistry in the latest period for which figures are available.

Simon Burns: It is for each primary care trust to determine how best to spend their allocated funding in the best interests of their local populations.

Ophthalmology

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many opticians' premises he has visited in an official capacity in the last 12 months.

Simon Burns: In the last 12 months the Secretary of State for Health, my right hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr Lansley), has not visited any opticians premises in an official capacity.

Public Expenditure

Nick Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department plans to cease to fund any of its functions over the period of the comprehensive spending review.

Simon Burns: The Department has not ceased to fund any of its functions since the beginning of the current spending round, as the functions of the Department have not changed. The Department continues, for example, to fulfil its Department of State functions of accountability to the public and Parliament; to provide strategic oversight of health and social care policy; and to be accountable for the funding of the national health service.
	Subject to the passage of the Health and Care Bill, the Department's functions will change as a result of the modernisation process. We will be reviewing the Department's operating model to determine which functions the Department should continue to fulfil, and which should be moved. It is therefore likely that some functions will be transferred to other organisations and the Department will take on some new ones. The exact timing and nature of these changes will not be confirmed until the outcome of the listening exercise is known.

Smoking

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the predominant determinants of smoking initiation.

Anne Milton: There is a growing body of published, peer reviewed research evidence on the determinants of smoking initiation. The Department monitors all relevant evidence in this area because of the crucial need to reduce the take up of smoking by children.
	The recently published Tobacco Control Plan for England includes references to some of this evidence such as Gervais, A. et al. (2006). "Milestones in the natural course of cigarette use among adolescents" in Canadian Medical Association Journal 175(3).
	A copy of the plan has already been placed in the Library.

Technical Training

Alun Cairns: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the future of defence technical training; and if he will make a statement.

Nick Harvey: The future location or locations of Defence Technical Training are currently being considered as part of the Defence Technical Training Change Programme. This process is subject to full internal scrutiny and a final decision is expected before the end of this year.

Income Tax

Edward Timpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the number of people resident in Crewe and Nantwich constituency who will no longer pay income tax consequent on the proposed increase in the personal allowance from April 2011.

David Gauke: The June 2010 Budget announced a £1,000 cash increase in the personal allowance for under 65s to £7,475 in 2011-12 (£820 above the previous Government's plans), with the benefits focused on individuals on low and middle incomes through accompanying changes to the basic rate limit and national insurance upper earnings and profit limits.
	As a result of these measures, the Government estimate that 830,000 of the lowest income taxpayers will be removed from income tax altogether, of which 100,000 are in the north-west and Merseyside region.
	These estimates are based on the 2007-08 Survey of Personal Incomes, projected using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility's March 2011 economic and fiscal outlook.
	Reliable estimates are not available at the parliamentary constituency level, due to greater uncertainties in projections for small geographical areas and small sample sizes.

Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals

Martin Vickers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the Exchequer of social security payment transfers to be made under the provisions of EU Regulation 883/2004 in 2011-12.

Chris Grayling: I have been asked to reply.
	There are two elements to the payments, social security benefits and healthcare claims.
	Social security benefit expenditure.
	Under the EU rules that coordinate the social security rights of persons who move within the EEA and Switzerland, some benefits acquired in one member state must be paid to people who live outside that state but within the EEA or Switzerland. Generally the benefits are acquired because someone is, or has been, working in the United Kingdom and has paid the relevant national insurance contributions.
	These regulations apply to benefits for old age, sickness and invalidity, unemployment, family responsibilities, death and survivors, and industrial injuries, and lay down the circumstances in which a person retains social security benefits when they move between EEA member states. Winter fuel payments are covered by these rules.
	Figures for the cost to the Exchequer for social security payment transfers made under the provisions of EU Regulation 883/2004 for the year 2011-12 are not available.
	Healthcare claims.
	Health is a benefit in kind for the purpose of the regulations. member states reimburse each other on an annual basis for care provided to each other's citizens. The costs are for claims for medical costs made under the European Health Insurance Card scheme, for healthcare provided to posted workers, for planned treatment and for health care costs relating to state pensioners. State pensioner costs account for around 80% of the total spend.
	The UK pays out far more than it receives mainly due to the large number of UK state pensioners that retire overseas in comparison to the very low number of state pensioners from other EEA countries that retire to the UK.
	Estimated totals for claims by and against the UK for healthcare benefits in kind made under the regulation for the year 2011-12 are £60 million and £952 million respectively.

Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals

Martin Vickers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate his Department has made of the amount transferred in social security payment transfers under the provisions of EU Regulation No 1408/71 in each of the last 10 years.

Chris Grayling: I have been asked to reply.
	I will let the hon. Member have such information as is available as soon as possible.
	Substantive answer from Chris Grayling to Martin Vickers:
	There are two elements to the payments, social security benefits and health care claims.
	Social security benefit expenditure
	Under the EU rules that coordinate the social security rights of persons who move within the EEA and Switzerland, some benefits acquired in one member state must be paid to people who live outside that state but within the EEA or Switzerland. Generally the benefits are acquired because someone is, or has been, working in the United Kingdom and has paid the relevant national insurance contributions.
	These regulations apply to benefits for old age, sickness and invalidity, unemployment, family responsibilities, death and survivors, and industrial injuries, and lay down the circumstances in which a person retains social security benefits when they move between EEA member states. Winter fuel payments are covered by these rules.
	Health  care expenditure
	Health is a benefit in kind for the purpose of the regulations. Member states reimburse each other on an annual basis for care provided to each other's citizens. The costs are for claims for medical costs made under the European Health Insurance Card scheme, for health care provided to posted workers, for planned treatment and for health care costs relating to state pensioners. State pensioner costs account for around 80% of the total spend.
	The UK pays out far more than it receives mainly due to the large number of UK state pensioners that retire overseas in comparison to the very low number of state pensioners from other EEA countries that retire to the UK.
	The amounts transferred in respect of social security benefits and health care claims under the provisions of EU Regulation 1408/71 are shown in the following tables. The figures are rounded to the nearest £ million.
	
		
			 Social security payments 
			 £ million 
			  Total Of which state pension 
			    
			 2000-01 607 536 
			 2001-02 667 592 
			 2002-03 775 691 
			 2003-04 844 755 
			 2004-05 979 887 
			 2005-06 1,073 977 
			 2006-07 1,146 1,048 
			 2007-08 1,261 1,158 
			 2008-09 1,361 1,252 
			 2009-10 1,485 1,373 
			 Source:  DWP statistical and accounting data. 
		
	
	Figures for family benefits (child benefit and child tax credit) are not available separately from overall expenditure.
	
		
			 EEA health care costs 
			  Member states' claims against the UK Claims against member states 
			 2002-03 250 32 
			 2003-04 314 25 
			 2004-05 382 31 
			 2005-06 463 35 
			 2006-07 526 38 
			 2007-08 630 46 
			 2008-09 710 47 
			 2009-11 838 57 
			 2010-11 925 58 
		
	
	Totals for claims by and against the UK for health care benefits in kind provided for years 2002-03 to 2010-11 are set out in the table given on 12 July 2010, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA100. Comparable data for years prior to 2002-03 are not available.
	State pension could be paid in the EEA under domestic legislation but the amount payable would be different as it would not be uprated in all cases. Therefore the total amount of SRP is ultimately paid as a result of the EU regulations
	The figures for health care costs are already in the public domain. The Resource Outturn totals (which represent the total claims) that DH provided have in the past been used for the Health Select Committee and are reflected in the DH Resource Accounts that are published each year, and have been used in several PQs (Commons and Lords).
	The most recent PQ containing this information was asked by Lord Laird on 12 July 2010, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA100 (reference HL952).

Departmental Data Protection

Eric Ollerenshaw: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many contracts his Department holds which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; to which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each such contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas under each such contract.

Gregory Barker: DECC holds no contracts which allows contractors to store the personal data of UK citizens overseas.

Departmental Pay

John Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what additional pay he plans to provide to officials in his Department in the period from 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2013 to reflect (a) seniority, (b) promotion and (c) performance.

Gregory Barker: For the period 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) continues to be subject to a pay freeze and will not be awarding any consolidated pay increases to staff earning more than £21,249. We plan to award consolidated pay increases of at least £250 in line with Treasury guidance to staff earning less than £21,000, although the final amount has not yet been determined.
	For the period 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013, DECC has not yet considered what increases will be awarded to staff, as the Department will make decisions in line with central pay guidance that has not yet been published.
	(a) DECC does not currently award additional pay to reflect seniority and has no plans to do so.
	(b) Where staff are promoted from one grade to another the Department awards a 10% increase in pay, except where this results in a lower salary than the grade minimum at the higher grade, where the grade minimum is paid instead. We expect this policy to remain unchanged during the period 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2013.
	(c) The value of any non consolidate performance awards payable between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2013 are yet to be determined.

Energy: Housing

Gordon Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 
	(1)  what his policy is on the setting of installer qualification requirements under the Green Deal;
	(2)  whether installers who will be legally responsible for signing off on electrical work under the Green Deal will have to be qualified to level 3 or above;
	(3)  what arrangements are in place to ensure that installers who will be legally responsible for signing off on electrical work under the Green Deal are appropriately qualified;
	(4)  when his Department plans to consult on (a) the specific qualifications requirements for installers working under the Green Deal and (b) the installation works that will be included under the Green Deal funding arrangements.

Gregory Barker: We have commissioned the British Standards Institute (BSI) to develop a Green Deal standard by the end of this year. This will bring together the existing standards—including those for installation of electrical works—and new standards where necessary. BSI will develop the standard with industry and also publicly consult in late summer. Only installers who meet this standard will be allowed to install measures under the Green Deal.
	We will use UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) will provide independent accreditation of installers.
	To support this, we have already announced that we will fund at least 1,000 dedicated Green Deal apprenticeships, in addition to the many apprenticeships that already exist in trade sectors—including electrical contracting and building services.

Feed-in Tariffs

James Wharton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 
	(1)  how much he estimates the feed-in-tariff scheme would cost energy consumers if the rules on eligibility and tariff levels remained unchanged in each of the next five years;
	(2)  how much he estimates the feed-in-tariff scheme would cost energy consumers if large-scale solar power plants remained eligible for the scheme in each of the next five years.

Gregory Barker: The estimated costs to electricity consumers of the feed-in tariffs scheme if no changes are made to the scheme as it was announced in February 2010 are provided in the following table. These projected costs are based on original analysis carried out for the February 2010 final impact assessment and recent analysis undertaken on large scale solar PV and farm-scale AD for the fast-track review of FITs.
	It is important to note that these figures do not take into account further evidence obtained since the launch of the fast-track review. We are in the process of reviewing this evidence, but early indications are that it would lead to an increase in the estimates.
	
		
			 Estimated costs to consumers of FITs (2011 prices, discounted) 
			  £ million 
			 2011-12 90 
			 2012-13 180 
			 2013-14 290 
			 2014-15 420 
			 2015-16 580 
			 Notes: 1. Impacts are presented as additional to baseline, where baseline costs are those costs expected to occur for sub-5MW uptake under the renewables obligation in the absence of FITs. 2. Figures have been rounded. 3. Cost to consumers is the net subsidy cost of the scheme, i.e. total generation and export tariff payments minus the value of exports to suppliers. 4. Each annual figure is cumulative, i.e. includes payments against projects that joined the feed- in tariffs scheme in previous years. 
		
	
	The first comprehensive review of FITs as announced by Government in February 2011 is currently under way and may provide revised estimates of future FIT costs to consumers.

Fuels: Prices

Huw Irranca-Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he expects the Downstream Oil Industry Forum report to be published; and to whom it will be circulated.

Charles Hendry: Work has been conducted to examine the resilience of the downstream oil industry by a task group of the Downstream Oil Industry Forum; a study carried out by Wood Mackenzie on behalf of DECC on this topic has been completed, is available on DECC's internet site and was placed in the Library of the House on 26 April. In addition, a related reported conducted for DECC by Deloitte LLP has also been placed in the Library of the House and is available on DECC's website.

Wind Power: Finance

Huw Irranca-Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether he plans to modify the constraints payments to wind farm operators as part of his plan for electricity market reform.

Charles Hendry: Reducing or increasing the output of generators is a routine part of National Grid's role to balance supply and demand. One of the tools used to do this is the "Balancing Mechanism", where in the final hour before real time National Grid can accept "bids" and "offers" from all types of generators for the payment they require to alter their output.
	This is a competitive market where National Grid will pick the most cost-effective way to deliver what they need. This is being kept under review, but it is a matter for Ofgem who are responsible for monitoring developments in the market and facilitating any changes that may be required.
	DECC does not plan to consider constraints payments to wind farm operators as part of plans for electricity market reform.

Departmental Data Protection

Eric Ollerenshaw: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many contracts his Department holds which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas; to which contracts this applies; in which countries the data for each such contract is held; and how many people have their data stored overseas under each such contract.

Francis Maude: Cabinet Office policy does not allow data to be stored overseas. Departmental electronic and paper records show that the Cabinet Office does not hold any contracts which allow contractors to store personal data of UK citizens overseas.

Departmental Mobile Phones

Mike Freer: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many officials in his Department are provided with mobile communication devices; and how much his Department spent on mobile telephones and related data services in the last year for which figures are available.

Chris Grayling: The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had 16,077 mobile telephones, 19,22 BlackBerries and 6,077 3G mobile data cards—figures for March 2011.
	The total spend for the 2010-11 financial year on mobile related services, including rental, call charges and data usage, was £3.4 million plus VAT.
	The Department's business units are responsible for issuing mobile communication devices to their staff based on DWP business need. DWP is currently reviewing the use of all mobile devices and this will result in a significant reduction in the overall number of devices across the Department. All business units are expected to continuously review their requirement, with an emphasis on cost reduction.
	Through the Cabinet Office, the Department has recently taken advantage of the new central Government framework on mobile tariff rates, introduced from 1 April 2011. However, the tariffs are being applied retrospectively from 1 October 2010 as part of the contractual agreement completed in autumn 2010. These new rates offer significant savings on rental and call charges. These savings are not included in the 2010-11 spend but will be brought to account during the 2011-12 financial year.
	The Department has separately negotiated further reductions in the cost of its BlackBerry rental charge. These reduced rates were agreed in autumn 2010 and came into effect from April 2011.

Departmental Work Experience

Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what advice his Department provides to those wishing to (a) work as an intern, (b) undertake a work experience placement and (c) work as a volunteer in his Department.

Chris Grayling: The Department provides paid summer internships to students from under-represented groups to encourage them to apply for the civil service Fast Stream. The Fast Stream is the civil service graduate development programme and the purpose of the Summer Internship programme is to encourage students from ethnic minorities and those from under-represented social-economic backgrounds to gain experience of working in stretching assignments that will prepare them to apply for the Fast Stream when they have graduated.
	The Department will also be offering paid internships through the Whitehall Internship Programme announced as part of the Social Mobility Strategy. To complement the existing Fast Stream Summer Diversity Internships two new schemes will be piloted in summer 2011 and are targeted at students from under-represented groups including Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority communities and people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds:
	at sixth-form college level, providing placements to Year 12 students to increase professional experience and workplace skills, and
	at secondary school level, running day-long programmes within Whitehall, providing an opportunity for students to meet Ministers and senior civil servants.
	As part of the Government's Get Britain Working Work Experience initiative the Department is looking to offer a number of eligible young people short-term work experience. Initial advice to candidates on the programme will be provided by their Jobcentre Plus adviser. When people start with us we will provide a structured induction with advice and support which will help them settle into the Department and the working environment.
	There are no other specific programmes in the Department for work experience or for people to work as volunteers but there may, on occasions, be local opportunities for short spells of work experience. In such cases advice and guidance to participants would be specific to the individuals and roles involved.
	Everyone who works in the Department, in whatever capacity, is subject to baseline security checks and will receive any essential training as is appropriate to their role.

Employment and Support Allowance

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the number of recipients of employment and support allowance there would be in the (a) work related activity group and (b) assessment phase (i) with and (ii) without time-limiting in place for each financial year from 2011-12 to 2015-16. [Official Report, 21 June 2011, Vol. 530, c. 1MC.]

Chris Grayling: The first table shows the estimated future recipients of contributory employment and support allowance (ESA) in the work related activity group (WRAG) with and without time-limiting in force.
	
		
			 Contributory ESA caseload in the WRAG 
			  With time-limiting in force Without time-limiting in force 
			 2011-12 200,000 200,000 
			 2012-13 260,000 400,000 
			 2013-14 200,000 590,000 
			 2014-15 160,000 730,000 
			 2015-16 40,000 720,000 
		
	
	The second table shows the estimated future recipients of contributory ESA in the assessment phase with and without time-limiting in force.
	
		
			 Contributory ESA caseload in the assessment phase 
			  With time-limiting in force Without time-limiting in force 
			 2011-12 180,000 180,000 
			 2012-13 110,000 190,000 
			 2013-14 180,000 190,000 
			 2014-15 170,000 180,000 
			 2015-16 160,000 170,000 
		
	
	Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10,000 claimants and are based on Budget 2011 forecasts for the ESA time-limiting proposal. Caseloads for contributory ESA have been given as people on income-related ESA or credits only ESA will be unaffected by the time limiting proposal.
	For those who leave the contributory ESA as a result of the time limit, it is estimated that around 60%, or approximately 400,000 people by 2015-16, are expected to be fully or partially compensated by income-related ESA, so will retain entitlement to ESA. And those who don't qualify for income-related ESA may remain on ESA on a credits-only basis.

Employment and Support Allowance

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the proportion of contributory employment and support allowance claimants in (a) the work-related activity group and (b) the assessment phase who would, in a steady-state without time-limiting, have a duration of 12 months or more.

Chris Grayling: It is estimated that in steady state, without time-limiting, around 77% of contributory employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants in the work related activity group or assessment phase would have duration of 12 months or more. This breaks down as 94% of contributory ESA claimants in the work related activity group and 6% of contributory ESA claimants in the assessment phase.
	For those who leave contributory ESA as a result of the time limit, it is estimated that around 60%, or approximately 400,000 people, are expected to be fully or partially compensated by income-related ESA, so will retain entitlement to ESA.

Employment Schemes

John Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of the new Work programme contractors his Department estimates are planning to sub-contract to voluntary sector organisations in (a) Glasgow North West constituency, (b) Glasgow city, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK.

Chris Grayling: The Work programme competition is still under way with post tender discussions being undertaken with preferred bidders. Contracts have not yet been signed and the information you have requested, therefore, cannot be provided at this time. When contracts have been signed, further information, including details of the prime contractors and their subcontractors, will be published on the Contracts Finder website as part of the ongoing commitment to the Transparency agenda.
	However, I can tell you that there are 57 third sector organisations within the supply chains of the preferred bidders within the Contract Package Area covering the constituencies you are inquiring about. Nationally there are over 300 first tier third sector organisations. In addition, there is a significant number of organisations providing ad hoc support as customer requirements dictate.

Health: Young People

Margaret Curran: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what benefits are available to 16 to 18-year-olds with long-term health conditions who are (a) in employment, (b) unable to work as a result of their condition, (c) seeking work and (d) in education.

Maria Miller: The following table summarises which benefits may be available to people in the four groups quoted in the question:
	
		
			  Benefits available to 16 to 18-year-olds with long-term health conditions who are: 
			  (a)   i  n employment (b) unable to work as a result of their condition (c) seeking work (d) in full-time education 
			 Working tax credit Yes — — — 
			 Employment and support allowance — Yes — — 
			 Disability living allowance Yes Yes Yes Yes 
			 Jobseekers allowance — — Yes — 
			 Income support — — — Yes 
		
	
	Working tax credit is designed to remove barriers to work and to top up earnings of working people on low to moderate incomes. People with children or a disability can claim it from age 16, provided they work at least 16 hours a week. Others must be aged 25 and work 30 or more hours a week to qualify. This reflects the fact that people without children or a disability face fewer barriers to work and should, therefore, be expected to work more hours per week than those with children or a disability.
	Employment and support allowance (ESA) is payable to people aged 16 to 65 whose ability to work is limited by ill-health or disability, subject to other qualifying conditions being met. ESA has both contributory and income-related elements; entitlement to contributory ESA is linked to a person's national insurance record with income-related ESA providing a means tested level of support.
	Disability living allowance is a cash benefit for children and adults with long-term impairments, which contributes towards the extra costs associated with their disability. It can be paid whether the recipient is in employment, unable to work as a result of their condition, seeking work or in education. It is not means tested and does not require a record of national insurance contributions.
	Young people under 18, who are available for work and training, can get jobseeker's allowance in certain situations—in particular if the young person would suffer severe hardship if the allowance were not paid. Under this power, all the individual circumstances of the young person are taken into account and it is therefore an effective safety net for those young people who are the most vulnerable. The young person will need to meet certain labour market rules and register with Connexions.
	Certain groups of young people who are still in relevant education can claim income support. These include lone parents and those who are still in full time non-advanced education (up to A Level/NVQ Level3 and equivalents) but estranged from their parents, or those acting as their parents, for reasons of abuse or family breakdown.

Jobcentre Plus: Crimes of Violence

Alistair Darling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many assaults occurred at Jobcentre Plus establishments and their predecessor benefit offices in each year from 1997 to 2010.

Chris Grayling: The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the chief executive of Jobcentre Plus, Darra Singh. I have asked him to provide the hon. Member with the information requested.
	Letter from Darra Singh
	The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question asking how many assaults occurred at Jobcentre Plus establishments and their predecessor benefit offices in each year from 1997 to 2010. This is something that falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus.
	Jobcentre Plus works hard to mitigate all Health and Safety risks and whilst no assault is acceptable, it is important to review these figures in context—Jobcentre Plus staff are involved in around 60m face to face meetings with clients every year and any incident should be viewed in light of this fact. Jobcentre Plus has a robust Risk Assessment methodology to deal with this volume of customer interactions, with suitable and sufficient control measures in place to manage the majority of those contacts. The majority of incidents reported are verbal. Jobcentre Plus employs approximately 73,000 staff. It takes the safety of staff very seriously. For this reason, it encourages staff to report all incidents of unacceptable customer behaviour. Where incidents do occur we provide support through our Employee Assistance Programme. All incidents are also investigated so that, if appropriate, lessons can be learned.
	The information is not available in the format requested. The available information is in the table below. This information is not available for years prior to the inception of Jobcentre Plus and includes incidents involving Customer Care Officers (CCO) who are employed under contract by Group 4 Securitas.
	All figures are reported in operational years rather than calendar years.
	
		
			  Verbal assault Attempted assault Actual assault Unknown Total 
			 2005-06 8,800 1,180 360 720 11,060 
			 2006-07 13,330 1,130 480 540 15,480 
			 2007-08 14,300 1,230 440 250 16,220 
			 2008-09 13,340 1,010 420 240 15,010 
			 2009-10 12,340 820 340 210 13,710 
		
	
	Due to the phased nature of the rollout of the Jobcentre Plus organisation, the information provided is from April 2005, when the capture of information became uniform across the business.
	The information has been collated from Department of Work and Pensions Accident and Assault Database (AAD) and have been rounded to the nearest 10. Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard.

Higher Education: Admissions

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what discussions he has had with the right hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark on the implications of his proposals for off-quota university places.

David Willetts: Both the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, my right hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable), and I have had a number of discussions on how we assure fair access. Core to our principles for considering options for enabling off-quota recruitment is to ensure that all places would comply with the principles of fair access without any reduction in entry standards. I have not yet discussed specific off-quota options with my right hon. Friend the Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Simon Hughes) but we have discussed the numbers of applicants that in recent years have been unable to secure a place at university.

Higher Education: Reading Berkshire

Alok Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many and what proportion of schools in Reading West constituency sent at least one pupil to the university of (a) Oxford and (b) Cambridge in each of the last 13 years.

David Willetts: Information has been provided by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and is shown in the following table.
	
		
			 Schools in Reading West with applicants accepted to full-time undergraduate courses at Oxford university or university of Cambridge via UCAS 
			  Schools with acceptances 
			  Oxford university University of Cambridge 
			 Year of entry Number Percentage Number Percentage 
			 2001 3 33 1 11 
			 2002 3 43 0 0 
			 2003 1 14 0 0 
			 2004 2 29 0 0 
			 2005 0 0 1 17 
			 2006 1 13 2 25 
			 2007 1 13 1 13 
			 2008 2 25 1 13 
			 2009 2 29 1 14 
			 2010 2 25 1 13 
			 Source: UCAS. 
		
	
	Schools have been identified as those with a postcode in the Reading West parliamentary constituency. The figures cover schools classed by UCAS as comprehensive, grammar, independent and other secondary schools in England. Other kinds of centres have not contributed to this analysis. Only schools from which UCAS received applications in the cycle concerned have contributed to the proportion calculation. Figures do not account for students accepted to Oxford or Cambridge who applied directly, rather than via UCAS.
	Detailed data on applications via secondary schools is only available from 2001. Data for earlier years has not been provided as the necessary reference data is not available.